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His paintings prefigure the development of perspective in Renaissance art.
Third, they sometimes prefigure unilateral moves into troubles-telling by the oh-prefacing, would-be troubles-teller.
The failure of their dramaturgical project could only prefigure that of the larger political undertaking - as is glaringly evident today.
Such developments prefigured contemporary issues in a number of ways.
In no respect did his career prefigure the double lives of the 1930s nor did his activities advance any personal material interests.
The transformation of charter law in the late nineteenth century prefigured a loss of state power, as more rights were granted to business corporations.
This account contains two elements that prefigure the work's reputation among scholars today.
In the course of the rehearsals, a particular system of signification is thus put together, prefiguring the spectators' response.
This opening seems to, and in some sense does, prefigure what follows.
